VirtualBox resolution of 1920 x 1080 ?

[01000111]

I'm running VirtualBox on Xubuntu v7.10 and have setup a WinXP guest machine so I can watch Netflix streaming video. My PC is connected to a 61" HDTV with a native resolution of 1920x1080. My Xubuntu system uses that resolution and plays HD video perfectly so I know my video card works with 1920x1080. I've installed Guest Additions and have resolution choices of:
800x600
1024x768
1152x864
1280x960
1280x1024
1400x1050 (my current setting which works fine with Netflix except for a lack of full screen video)
1600x1200
1920x1440
2560x1024

Where's 1920x1080? Is this a VirtualBox or Guest Additions limitation? ..or am I just missing something somewhere?

Any assistance is appreciated.

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[Hero of Time]

Go to the display settings of the virtual machine, select settings > advanced, then under the monitor tab, untick the checkbox 'Hide modes that this monitor cannot display' and it should be available.

[01000111]

Thanks, but that checkbox is greyed out. I think that's because the TV shows up as a generic monitor and I have yet to find a .inf file for it. Any known registry tweak to fix this instead of using the GUI?

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[penguinhugger]

I had the exact same problem with my widescreen LCD monitor, apparently there are only 4:3 resolutions in the presets modes.

To get a custom resolution in your Windows guest, start your VM and wait until it has loaded the desktop. Then open a terminal in linux and type this command:

VBoxManage controlvm nameofyourVM setvideomodehint width height colordepth

In my case for example I used:


VBoxManage controlvm winbox setvideomodehint 1920 1200 24

Voila, enjoy your full-screen :)

[tep200377]

Thanks PenguinHugger, that did the trick for me ;)

[aggiemarine07]

I tried that command it did not do anything to my virtual window.
I have spent hours trying to figure out why I can not get 16:9 resolutions in virtualbox and any help would be greatly appreciated. If there is anything I need to post just reply and I will get back to you with the info.

gw

[01000111]

I tried that command it did not do anything to my virtual window.
I have spent hours trying to figure out why I can not get 16:9 resolutions in virtualbox and any help would be greatly appreciated. If there is anything I need to post just reply and I will get back to you with the info.

gw

My final solution was to get xubuntu running in 1920x1080, then start vbox and hit CTRL-F. That caused it to run in the full screen mode, which used the native mode of xubuntu.

[ajhunt]

I tried that command it did not do anything to my virtual window.
I have spent hours trying to figure out why I can not get 16:9 resolutions in virtualbox and any help would be greatly appreciated. If there is anything I need to post just reply and I will get back to you with the info.

gw

Hi,

I'm running v2.0.2 of VBox and found the following command in Terminal worked for me (although only after closing and restarting VBox itself):

VBoxManage setextradata winbox CustomVideoMode1 1440x900x24

(Where winbox is the name of my VM. You can setup a number of custom video modes - 15 I think - by incrementing CustomVideoModeX)

Hope this helps!

Andy

[shaulch]

I had the exact same problem with my widescreen LCD monitor, apparently there are only 4:3 resolutions in the presets modes.

To get a custom resolution in your Windows guest, start your VM and wait until it has loaded the desktop. Then open a terminal in linux and type this command:

VBoxManage controlvm nameofyourVM setvideomodehint width height colordepthIn my case for example I used:


VBoxManage controlvm winbox setvideomodehint 1920 1200 24Voila, enjoy your full-screen :)

Hi,
i'm using virtual box 3.0.6 , my guest is win7 , the above command doesn't work for me (even worst before the highest res was 1280x1024 after the command the highest res is 1280x960)
i'm clueless ...

[shaulch]

Hi,
i'm using virtual box 3.0.6 , my guest is win7 , the above command doesn't work for me (even worst before the highest res was 1280x1024 after the command the highest res is 1280x960)
i'm clueless ...

ok , i increased the graphics memory to 128mb and now it works !

thanks all,
Shaul.